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| author | Patrik Nyblom <[email protected]> | 2012-12-20 14:58:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Patrik Nyblom <[email protected]> | 2012-12-20 14:58:49 +0100 |
| commit | 2aee2d0511615c921194134b959a57968fa1a12a (patch) | |
| tree | 9ae554c31583777731e55fe22dc44e2c6dcbb928 /lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml | |
| parent | e69d4d80e0dbb1916fb6900a2b47e0fdf85aea61 (diff) | |
| parent | 3f9fd7144dd5598dc55f2e1e071c1db581646314 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'jd/file-ram-opt-doc'
* jd/file-ram-opt-doc:
Move ram option from mode() type into open/2 spec
Basic documentation of the 'ram' mode in the 'file' module
OTP-10651
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml index b2a259080d..89190d8668 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ <name name="open" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Open a file</fsummary> <desc> - <p>Opens the file <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> in the mode determined + <p>Opens the file <c><anno>File</anno></c> in the mode determined by <c><anno>Modes</anno></c>, which may contain one or more of the following items:</p> <taglist> @@ -767,6 +767,10 @@ <p>The Encoding can be changed for a file "on the fly" by using the <seealso marker="stdlib:io#setopts/2">io:setopts/2</seealso> function, why a file can be analyzed in latin1 encoding for i.e. a BOM, positioned beyond the BOM and then be set for the right encoding before further reading.See the <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode">unicode(3)</seealso> module for functions identifying BOM's.</p> <p>This option is not allowed on <c>raw</c> files.</p> </item> + <tag><c>ram</c></tag> + <item> + <p><c>File</c> must be <c>iodata()</c>. Returns an <c>fd()</c> which lets the <c>file</c> module operate on the data in-memory as if it is a file.</p> + </item> </taglist> <p>Returns:</p> <taglist> |